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| Life: A Journey Through Time | 
| Author: Frans Lanting
Creator: Christine Eckstrom
Publisher: Taschen
Category: Book
List Price: $59.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 82635
Format: Illustrated
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 303
Shipping Weight (lbs): 8.5
Dimensions (in): 14.5 x 11.7 x 1.6
ISBN: 3822839949
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9783822839942
ASIN: 3822839949
Publication Date: September 10, 2006
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Product Description
Planet earth, home sweet home In the year 2000, world-renowned wildlife photographer Frans Lanting set out on a personal journey to photograph the evolution of life on earth. He made pilgrimages to true time capsules like a remote lagoon in Western Australia, spent time in research collections photographing forms of microscopic life, and even found ways to create visual parallels between the growth of organs in the human body and the patterns seen on the surface of the earth. The resulting volume is a glorious picture book of planet earth depicting the amazing biodiversity that surrounds us all. Lanting's true gift lies beyond his technical mastery: it is his eye for geometry in the beautiful chaos of nature that allows him to show us the world as it has never been seen before. From crabs to jellyfish, diatoms to vast geological formations, jungles to flowers, monkeys to human embryos, LIFE is a testament to the magical beauty of life in all its forms and is Lanting's most remarkable achievement to date. The photographer: Dutch-born Frans Lanting has been hailed as one of the great nature photographers of our time. For the past two decades he has documented wildlife and our relationship with nature in environments from the Amazon to Antarctica. Exhibits of his photographs have been shown at major museums in Paris, Milan, Tokyo, New York, Madrid, and Amsterdam. Lanting's previous TASCHEN titles include Eye to Eye, Jungles, and Penguin. The editor: Christine Eckstrom is a writer and editor specializing in natural history. She collaborates with Lanting on fieldwork, books, and other publishing projects from their home base in California.
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Life: A Journey Through Time January 7, 2008
I bought this as a gift for my borther-in-law and it was a huge hit. The photographs are staggeringly beautiful.
An amazing book! June 8, 2007
If you are not familiar with Franz Lanting's work this is an amazing first book to buy. It is full of stunning photos of a close approximation of the earth as it once was.
As has been said it makes a great coffee table book but is also a great addition to any library. For all the nature and photography enthusiasts out there, here is a great intro!
Lanting impresses again! May 17, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful book! The photographs are simply stunning and the layout of the book is great. This is an excellent sample of Lanting's work.
LIFE: A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME by Frans Lanting February 26, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Having followed Lanting's photo career since the origin of Nature Photographers of North America, we anxiously awaited his Life book and were not disappointed. Here is represented the beginnings of earth, after the Big Bang, and the geological results.
 Life: A journey Through Time January 16, 2007
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book is very interesting. The pictures offer a very special vision of our planet.
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